Home Depot

Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank are the owners of Home Depot. They started off working at a store called Handy Dan's which they were fired from. They then decided to open up there own place. The two worked hard and ran into many problems but after awhile it started working out. They opened chains up in Miami Canada and South America as well as other places. In less that two decades Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank's Home Depot had become the world's largest dealer of home improvement goods. The rules that these two followed that helped them achieve such great success were give excellent customer service, take care of your people, develop entrepreneurial spirit, Build strong relationships with people, take care of your share holds, give back to your community, do the right thing, and respect all people. Success at home depot also comes also from how the encourage customers to do it themselves. Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank achieved such great success because they already had alot of knowledge in their field and they had the right attitude and business owning rules to get them far.

Conrad Hilton

Conrad is known for his famous hotels. He changed the dieing business and built a huge empire. Conrad set about making his first serious dream come true. Conrad was set on making San Antonio's first bank, but the bank turned out to be a lousy idea. His only option seemed to work for his father in his general store. Conrad was enlisted in France in the supplies section and it was easy duty and he was set in Paris. He received a telegram that said his father was dead and for him to come home. Conrad missed his fathers funeral and he knew his father would want him to take over the general store. He decided that he couldn't be a banker and wanted to get into the hotel business. But his hotel brought in alot of money a week but he knew he had to make more. Soon Hilton started buying hotels for extremely cheap around and fixed them up to work hard. With his business getting bigger he need a slogan which was "minimax" which is minimum price for maximum service. Conrad had three sons which he was set on getting in his bussinnes. the depression then struck and his dream turned into a nightmare. In less than a year Hilton almost lost everything and many men just gave up but not Hilton. Hilton then arranged a meeting with his mother and some other people. They all went through bankruptcy but Hilton said he would not go through Bankruptcy. He then married a women who many men had told him that she was a gold digger. He then married this women and Hilton was then ready for the big leagues. Hilton then started opening up hotels in San Francisco. Then his wife started to become not very good for him. Nick Hilton then married Elizabeth Taylor and after seven months the two divorced. Hilton then realized that airline travel was gonna become bigger so he started to think that setting hotels around the world was a better idea. After his son died Hilton wasn't as big in the business and then he married not a movie star but a women he actually was in love with.

Martha Stuart

Martha was born a chubby baby and she had two siblings. money was tight in her family they were pretty poor. Martha was the oldest daughter and she was expected to do many tasks and she was expected to be a perfectionist. Martha loved to read and was a whiz at math and science and excelled in art. Martha took great pride in her home making skill. Martha noticed as she got older was when she noticed witch family's had it a lot better. She was one of the first girls in her school who took excelled math. Martha made 15 dollars an hour being a model because of her beauty and preppy look. Martha planned her schools prom and it is remembered as the schools best. If Martha was insecure she tried hard not to show it. Martha was a very busy women and she worked hard. Martha made the glamour magazine and it was scene as a sign that she is gonna be extremely successful. Martha married Andy Stewart and her parents wernt so thrilled about it. In 1963 Andy graduated and took Martha on an extended trip in Europe. As a young mother in the world of modeling she had a hard time finding a job. She then set her sights on wall street. Martha wanted to get away from the city and live a nice life. Her and Andy decided to live on a farm. Martha quit her job and Andy had a job in law school where he got enough money money to pay for the family. Martha wanted to use her fathers memory to inspire her book. Martha started doing a show and it became very big very fast. Martha went through a bitter divorce and it left a hole in her family as martha started to movie forward. What i learned from this is that if you get cheat no matter how rich you are you will get caught.

Mike Kinds Last Lecture

Seperate successful people from unsuccessful people is fear. People that have fear are scared of making mistakes and scared of doing things wrong. People make assumpstions on there one experience they had or on other peoples experiences. Keep your eyes open all the time and keep your mind open to oppurtunitys that exist. Copy cat means that you copy an idea that is relatively the same as something else that exists but make it alot better in certain ways. The circle of Infleunce is experienceing certain people in different ways. Dont be age restricted learn from certain people. Do not quit bust on through the brick wall. Most true successes happen after a bad struggle with fail. Never stop learning, you can never be to old to stop learning.`Try and have fun ever day of your life. The one point that i found the best was never quit because i think ity is very important to fight through the problems that you face. You have to solve your problems and fight through failures.

The Apprentice

In this episode the teams Net Worth and Magma have to build a miniature golf course and the team that makes the most money wins at the end off the day. The team has to manage the course for one full day and then at the end of the day the person with the least amount of money loses and a person on there team will be fired. At the end of the day it was Audrey who was fired because she wouldn't take any responsibility for anything and she was constantly blaming everyone else for the mistakes in her team. What i learned from this is that you must take responsibility sometimes and not try to blame things on everyone else.

Uro Club

The positives of the Uro club is sometimes gimmicks get very popular and sell very well because everyone wants to join in on the joke. Another positive is it does help with a problem that is existing with men on the golf course releiving themselves. The Negatives to this product is that it doesnt seem like somthing that would be more than just a joke. Alot of golfers are more seroius and would have no interest in purchasing one of these. I would not be interested in investing in this product it just seems really dumb and wouldnt sell very much at all.

Pork Barrell Spice Rub

The positive about this business is that it was rated one of the second best in the nation. Another positive about Pork Barrell Spice Spice Rub is that it is something could get very big very fast especially in America. The negative about this product is it can also go no way very fast. It all depended on how they were gonna market it. I would personally would invest in Brett and Heath's company because they look like they know what there doing and they have a product that is of course good.

Tom's shoes

This business has a great way of working. It sells shoes to the public and for every shoe sold then a pair of shoes is given away. This is a great idea because there is lot of people out there that like to be charitable but would also like to receive something for being charitable. Toms shoes pretty much works off that because people like the idea of being able to buy something for themselves while being charitable at the same time.

Time Managment

If someone knows your screwing up but doesn't tell you or try to teach you anything then that's when you know that they have given up on you. You might never get somewhere but at least you get a good experience and it will give you experience for things in the future. Leadership is a good skill set. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. He didn't like to do alot of text book work but more projects. another point is not to be arrogant because it will hold you back in life and you will never be able to achieve your full potential. Another good point he made was that if you really want something then you have to work hard to get it to get through the brick wall.

Reflecting on the experience

Problems that i encountered were almost everyday we ran out of our product and in the process of making our product we had a small grill which made our line ups get very big very fast and people had to wait awhile for their food. We also had a few products that did not sell very well at all. The lesson i learned in this week of selling is you should figure out what products will sell the best and just stick with those instead of buying so many different products. Like the freezies and pogo sticks did not sell well at all. I will apply this later in life because i will make sure i know what sells and what doesnt to garenteed a good product.

Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy's fast food resuarant. Hes is well known for appearing in 800 commercial advertisments for the chain. Thomas opened his first wendy's in Columbus, Ohio. Thomas started to resign from the bussiness but after wendy's started to get in to trouble with new ideas he was brought back on board. As a kid he was adopted by Rex and Auleva Thomas. At 12 he got his first job in Knoxville, Tennesse but then lost it in a dispute with his boss. At 15 he was living in the Hobby House Restuarant. Thomas quit school and didnt graduate from highschool untill 1993. Thomas died at his home in Florida after a long battle with liver cancer. At the time of his death there were more than 6,000 Wendy's restuarants open in North America.

10 trends

1. Econonomic turmoil

2. Green Power

3. the Senior Project

4. Discount Retail

5. Local business

6. Education

7. Parental Outsourcing

8. Health and Welness

9. Texas

10. Affordable Alcohol

10.5 Pets

10. Afforbadable Alcohol

Some people will stay home because going to the clubs is very expensive because you also have to figure out the ride there and back and have to pay for it. Also people are staying home because its more comfortable and buying alcohol at the store is alot cheaper.

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google

Google was started by two men named Larry and Sergei. Google turned search into a money making machine. The owners didn't mean to start it it just kinda happened. Any company could have had google but they didn't see it going anywhere so they rejected it. Before they could start it they had to figure out how links in cyber space work. number of quarries went to 10,000 a day then started to millions of quarries a day. Google became so responsive that it would take only a quarter of a second to get more than a million results. they started making lots of money when they figured out how to do advertising. Google seems to be a good place to work. They have great food for lunch and then they come up with new ideas everyday.

Arnold Swartzenegger

What i learned about Arnold is for one do what you love. Arnold loved body building and even though no one supported him and no one liked him doing it, but he kept doing it and it eventually brought him to fame. He had a good attitude about everything he did that led him to be the best. He also always set the bar very high witch kept him to be the best.

Blue ocean strategy

Blue ocean strategy is a business that has no competition.

Cirque de soliel is an example of a blue ocean strategy.

6 points of B.O.S are

1. Reconstruct market boundaries

make a complete new idea.

2.Focus on the big picture not the numbers

Focus on the final project.

3. Reach beyond exicting demand

reach beyond what the existing demand is.

4. Get the strategic sequence right

get the strategic sequence correctly done.

5. Overcome key orginiatizational hurdles

Ovecome the things that are in your way.

6. Build execution into strategy

the only way to beat the competition is to try to stop beating the competition. Industries never stand still. high blue ocean potential has three complementary qualities. If you get into a businness with no competition you have a very good chance of being sucessful. A good example of what a blue ocean strategy would be Cirque du Soliel. This blue ocean strategy company introduced a whole new form of live entertainment which had no competition at the time.

Foldio

He gave away 30 percent of his businesss for 80, 000 pounds. It was a good ivestment because he now has a mentor and money to help him kick off his business. His idea was a good one he just needed bussiness advice and money to start it which he has now.

Element bars

You get to design your own bars on a website then they ship them to you. He wants 150 000 dollars for 15 percent. The sharks this that they can just start there bussiness on there own. One shark is out right away and then another shark offers 150, 000 for 75 percent of the comapny. The other shark says he will give 150, 000 for 100 percent of the comapny. Shark then says he will give him 150, 000 for 30 percent of the comapny and he accepts. I think he made a good choice because he now has the experience and connections of that shark.

All guys gym

Thrill seeking Tours

Ray Kroc

Ray Kroc is a great American entrupruner. He was an american bussiness man wh tok over the mcdonalds coperation in 1954 and made it into the most succesful fast food restuarant in the world. He started off partnering with the Mcdonalds brothers. Kroc became frustrated with the Mcdonalds brothers so he purchased the comapny from them. The brothers opened a big M restuarant witch he forced out of bussiness. Ray Kroc created a new kind of fast food with the idea of an assembly line. This made sure that everything would taste the same no matter what or where. Ray Kroc died at the age of 81 of heart failure.

Script

Hi there my name is Anthony. I am a student from sardis secondary ent. class and i am selling this tickets, which are a dollar per ticket. The money sold goes towards fundrasing for our grad schlorships. The tickets will go into a raffle for a beautiful 2001 Acura El! If you buy a ticket you will be helping our school alot and possibly winning yourself a nice car.

Bobble Place

Jeff came in with a deal asking for 75 thousand in return for 15 percent equity in his business. The sharks were not interested in this concept instead they were interested in his already existing company. Jeff was not willing to give any of his already existing company up. The sharks then offered a 100,000 for 18 percent of his company and forbid Jeff from moving into a mall. Then another shark offered him 125,000 for 20 percent of his company. Both sharks were then out. Jeff just wanted to get publicity i think, and he really didn't want any kinda of deal for his existing company.

Canada's Top 100 Employers

BC Hydro:

- helps employees prepare for retirement with a generous contributions to a defined benefit pension plan, and a phased-in retirement work option

-manages a technologist-in-training program for candidates in the engineering, operations and electrical systems maintenance and repair fields

-host in-house apprenticeship programs for graduates from a wide variety of technical fields

-offer maternity leave top-up benefits to employees who are new mothers (to 85% of salary for 17 weeks)

Club Intrawest:

-pays employees financial bonuses (to $1500) when they refer someone who is successfully hired by the company

-provide a variety of training options to employees, including in-house and online training programs, and career planning assistance

-gives employees generous discounts at affiliated resort destinations across North America

-offers a flexible health benefits plan, so employees can customize the coverage they receive

Nintendo of Canada:

-helps employees save for retirement with contributions to a matching RSP plan

-provides employees with five paid days off during the Christmas break, in addition to paid vacation allowance

-offers maternity leave top-up (to 100% for 16 weeks) for new mothers

-encourages employee wellness with free memberships to an onsite fitness facility, that also offers onsite yoga classes

Simon Fraser Unirversity:

-provides parental leave top-up payments for new mothers, fathers and adoptive parents (to 100% for 37 weeks)

- employees can take advantage of an onsite daycare facility as well as a summer day camp program for school-age children of employees

-gives employees free memberships to a state-of-the-art fitness facility

-provides employees with a generous tuition subsidy -- with no annual maximum -- for courses taken at the university

- offers employees a health benefits plan that extends through retirement, with no age limit

Next Level Games Inc.

-a leading small employer and a pioneer in the gaming industry, offering parental leave top-up payments for new and adoptive mothers (to 80% for 27 weeks)

- offers new employees three weeks vacation, plus five paid personal days off and paid time off at Christmas

-lets employees share in the company's success with profit-sharing and share purchase plans

-helps employees stay in-shape with subsidized fitness club memberships and free ski passes to nearby Cypress Mountain

-offers flexible work hours, telecommuting and even lets employees bring their pets to work when needed

Healthy Organization

A healthy organization is a dynamic establishment developed around the qualities that refer to customer needs and wants of a product.

"Hunks Hauling Junk"

This shark tank episode was about a two man team that developed a company called "college hunks hauling junk," that is good looking men that come and haul your stuff. That company was a big success and now they wanna start a sister company called "college foxes hauling boxes." They are successful with there first business because people enjoy having good looking people haul there stuff out of there houses instead of greasy old guys.

The main thing i learned from this is that you have to think of what people would want or like and think of something creative to meet there wants and needs to have a successful business. The entrepreneurs didn't really loose or win in this show. they didn't come out with what they wanted but they still had what it took to be successful in there new business.

They probaly should have took the deal because it was a very good deal for them. But in the end they probaly will end up doing just fine in there business. Personally i think they should focus all there energy on they college hunks because there is a lot of problems that with come with the college foxes. Problems that will come with it could be sexual harassment, possibly rape, and women cant haul as heavy stuff as guys.

sam walton

This man built walmart, one of the most succesful companies in the world and at one point Sam Walton was the richest man in the world. He started off living the farm life with his family. early tho in his life he decided that he wasnt gonna work for anyone. he worked at places like JC Penny. He married a nice lady named Helen Walton and married her on valentines day. He was determined to buy products and sell them for less. He was diagnosed with bone cancer and died of it.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is a young geeky kid that started facebook. He is worth 3 billion dollars and doesn't buy anything, he lives in a small apartment and works at a normal desk at his work. He was a Harvard drop out who was studying psychology. There website facebook was started in Harvard and through colleges. Mark Zuckerberg felt it was better to hire raw intelligence, which means people with intelligence but less experience because he felt it aloud them more room to develop and get experience. He believes that's its good to have humble team so the business just evolves. He believes to keep operating costs low to increase revenue. He believes its good just to try things out and see if they work or not. He is a thought full listener. And he likes to experiment things through try and fail technique. His employees get free time to hangout with each other, which really helps. Facebook did alot better than myspace because of there marketing target needs and wants. Also facebook is more personal friends were myspace is more public. Also trends come and go where myspace is the trend that is going.

Steve Jobs

In this video Steve Jobs talks about his life story. he talks about when he started Mac which is a huge company now. He explains how he started the company and then later was kicked out by his partner. After he kicked out he realized he still was inlove with what he did so he opened up new companys. one which is pixar, now the biggest animation studio. And his other comapny wa actually bought by mac. Basically Steve Jobs biggest point his that being kicked out of his bussiness was the best thing that ever happened to him.

Shark Tank

Mr, Todd's pies

Mr Todd Wilson needs money for his pie shop. His pies are a big hit among many people. Mcdonalds wants to buy his product aswell as many others. His pies are very wanted but some of the sharks dont want in beacuse they feel he is gonna try and expand to quickly again. He also sells more different pies that he didnt really need to sell, he should just be sticking to his yam pies which make most of his income. He also had trouble with his bussiness before. But they gave him a deal for that they would control 50 percent of his company. He took the deal because it would save his company and help take him to the next level in his bussiness.

The Rockafellers

The rockafellers are a rich group of men. They loved to make money, and plenty of it. They were extremly successful. They became wealthy because there were smart with thier money. The rockafellers kept a log of every penny they spent which is extremly smart. They were smart by not making there company to big.

Richard branson

Today i learned a few things about sir Richard Branson. He was a man that didnt do to well in school but did extremly well in life. He made billions of dollars and is living a great life. He owns a big island and has lots of fun and nothing gets in his way. He has unique ideas and a natural leader. He was a man that owns so many companys even tho he doesnt need to. He does what he does because he loves it.

Confidence, whats is it?

Confidence is what makes a strong person. A confident person cant be stopped. A moment in my life that gave me confidence was when i first learned to ride a bike. I had trouble getting up all the time but then i eventually got it up and rode my bike all around the block. it was nice.

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Today in my class i learned many things. I was very to find that lots of friends were in this class. but anyways i learned that attitude reflects leadership, and that is very powerful. I also learned that we really are more capable than we think, its all about confidence. Business works this way aswell.